Are adolescents being encouraged to become sexually active if contraceptives are distributed in high schools? Are authorities taking care of teen pregnancy issues by educating adolescents on contraceptives and birth control? Is education on abstinence being compromised by sexual education in high school? Is teen pregnancy an issue that should be addressed by educators, or should it be addressed only at home?
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I don't think adolescents are encouraged to have sex if school decides to distribute contraceptives. I actually think that there is some people that really don't understand what they're dealing with so if they don't believe in abstinence, the only way is to use contraceptives. Authorities don't even care about teen pregnancies. Most people don't know what a contraceptive is. I think authorities must do something about this because the more people there is, more likely we are to have poverty. Education on abstinence and sexuality must go together because both are related to each other. High schools must educate teens about sexual life and about sexuality over all. I think parents have to talk to their children about sexuality but also schools must provide this type of education because it's a social thing. I support abstinence but also support the fact that there are some persons that do not support abstinence and prefer contraceptives. Schools and parents have to talk to children and educate them since they're little in order to avoid this type of situations or bad consequences. :) (babies are not a mistake)
ReplyDeleteI'm Carmen from IV A
DeleteIn the case of distribution of contraceptives on schools, I don’t think it means that you are encouraging them to be sexually active. It is only a way to transmit the message to kids to be careful and use protection. I believe that people think different, if a person has moral he/she will have the idea of abstinence, and even though school gives out contraceptives they will not be an encouragement to be sexually active, if that person has principles. Authorities try in what they can to educate about sexuality and contraceptives, but the economy is so bad that not everyone gets that education. An example will be people with low resources; they never had education at home neither went to school were they probably will have been teach about it. They don’t know what contraceptives are neither now that having too many kids is bad since they don’t have enough money to maintain them. Schools do compromise about sexual education, but it also depends on how each person thinks about it. Teen pregnancy should be addressed in schools and also at home, as it will help to prevent a little more. Try to make the adolescents think about the consequences of not being abstinent or not using protection. Think of how those decisions may affect them in the feature.
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ReplyDeleteBy distributing contraceptives in high school you are encouraging adolescents to become sexually active. If you give them a contraceptive you are saying “Ok you can go and have sex, just be careful” that is not a good thing, schools should be promoting abstinence and they should give their children lectures about the consequences that becoming sexually active might bring. If you have morals and values you are aware of all of the consequences like a pregnancy and STD, etc. You are also mature enough to know that virginity is an important thing that you should keep until you get married. Authorities think that by giving adolescents contraceptives and birth control pills they are going to prevent teen pregnancy, but what they are doing is actually telling teens “have sex”. Like I said before they should talk to them about the consequences that becoming sexually active can have. I think teen pregnancy is an issue that should be addressed on both home and school, because even though our parents talk to us about pregnancy, STDs, etc we spent most of our time in school. Schools should have a class in which they teach students about all this stuff so they will be more concerned about making a stupid decision that they will regret later on. I think that it doesn’t matter if your parents, teachers, or any adult talk to you about abstinence, teen pregnancy, etc if you have morals and values you will know that it’s better to wait until you get married.
ReplyDeleteLuisa Zambrano IV "A"
Give contraceptives to adolescents does not make them sexually active, not only by the fact that you'll give a condom to an adolescent he will have sex, it's like if you give him a pack of cigarettes to a teenager he's going to become addicted to smoking, it depends of the person if they use it or not by their morals and values.The teens that are sexually active will most likely have sex with or without a condom, so providing them with total confidentiality would make these teens comfortable enough to make the responsible choice to use one. Realistically most teens are having sex too soon, is a minority of teens who are choosing abstinence, knowing what is best desition but also teenagers are quite capable of making good decisions, they just need to be better informed. The option of contraceptives being distributed in high schools is really a good idea not only because it helps to prevent sexually transmitted diseases also prevents early pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteMaria Rene Diaz IV "A"
Sweetie, you have the same exact sentence as Maria Renee Ponce:
DeleteThe teens that are sexually active will most likely have sex with or without a condom, so providing them with total confidentiality would make these teens comfortable enough to make the responsible choice to use one.
Since this comment is meant to be your OWN personal opinion, I cannot grant you a grade for it.
In my opinion, giving contraceptives is not a way of making teens sexually active... As teens we can think of what is good for us, we don't always choose the right things but that's the way we learn. The only thing we need is the best orientation and support because no matter what we see or what we learn we will always do what we want. Teaching us the best methods of preventing diseases, early pregnancies and emotional and mental hurting is one way of understanding and reasoning our decisions.If parents TRUST in us and let us do our own decision without getting in the way and saying DON'T DO IT and instead start making us see the impacts we can suffer and also by comparing some cases, like in early pregnancy we can learn in our home and school can teach us by giving us a responsibility like a robotic baby for a weekend or at home by giving us a dog, it's a life depending on us.That way school and home can teach us about early pregnancies.
ReplyDeleteIn conclusion, teaching teens of contraceptives, birth control and abstinence is useful to let them know they have many options of taking care and that any of those is helpful for everybody.
Ana Gaitán IV "A"
Sweetie, you have the exact same sentence as Amira Aranky:
DeleteThe only thing we need is the best orientation and support because no matter what we see or what we learn we will always do what we want.
It seems like you both got this from wiki answers. Since the assignment was supposed to be your OWN personal opinion, I cannot grant you a grade for it.
In my opinion Give contraceptives to adolescents could be something really good and bad at the same time, because they are protecting themselves to catch any STD and to stop bringing kids to the world by accident. but at the same time you are giving them, like the option to have sexual relationship, sexual relationships increases.
ReplyDeleteTo avoid the increase of sexual relationships. the school needs to be sure, they are having a grate education of abstinence, birth control, and contraceptives. but the the abstinence, birth control, and contraceptives education not only is taught in school, the parents of the kids needs to talk to each kid and tell him the concecuence of having sexual relatiochips before getting married.
Are adolescents being encouraged to become sexually active if contraceptives are distributed in high schools?
ReplyDeleteI dont think giving away contraceptives is a bad choice. I think teachers know that at our age, we become sexually active, so they are protecting us. I think its a way of saying us that its normal that you have the need to discover the opposite sex, but we can do it taking care of us. Otherwise, the gril can become pregnant ot they can catch an STD.
But in the other hand, I think giving away this contraceptives would send a wrong message. Some people can say: they are giving us this so we can protect ourselves, so lets do sexual intercourses. But they might not know that a contraceptive is not always 100% sure. And pregnancy could happend
I think yes, its a good idea. But, also we have to know that the most efeective way of not catching a STD or getting a girl pregnant is abstinence.
They should remind us that our mind is not mature enough for us to have a sexual intercouse. Not less having a baby.
Also, remind us that we must decide for ourselves, not peer pressure or our boyfriend.
I really believe that sex education should be in school and house. parents or teachers have to speak to adolocetens clearly and truthfully. This would prevent the adolocetentes wanted to try something that could easily cost your life.
ReplyDeleteI do not think it's bad to talk to teens about sex is something in life you will experience, but should be at the right time and right moment. becoming known and the true consequences of getting pregnant, they would reason things out before acting, but I really think people need to speak clearly. would avoid many teenagers would like to try something that could bring serious consecuancias.
an education about contraceptives prevent many women get pregnant, would have less risk and would have the basic concept of what they have to do in a relation of sex active.
nathalie barrera IV "C"
The idea of giving out contraceptives in schools is not to encourage teens to become sexually active, but to show teens there are responsible ways to be sexually active. These assuming the majority of teens are already sexually active. In my opinion sexual education must be imparted in every school because it is a way to prevent all the consequences of prompt sexual activity.
ReplyDeleteThe teens that are sexually active will most likely have sex with or without a condom, so providing them with total confidentiality would make these teens comfortable enough to make the responsible choice to use one.
I believe that in every single home, parents should encourage their children the importance of abstinence until marriage.
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DeleteSweetie, you used the exact same words Maria Rene Diaz used in hers:
DeleteThe teens that are sexually active will most likely have sex with or without a condom, so providing them with total confidentiality would make these teens comfortable enough to make the responsible choice to use one.
Seems like you both used the same article from www.teenink.com "Give Teens Condoms in High School". Since this assignment required your OWN personal opinion, I cannot grant you a grade for it.
I think that giving contraceptives to teens is a way of encourging them to have sexual relationships, but trying to prevent pregnancy. However it is not as effective as abbstinence. Authorities give some courses on pregnancy and birth control, but only in the city; most people in Guatemala don´t get that education, are sexually active without any prevention, and they have a lot of kids. The worst part is that, economically, they can´t feed all their family.
ReplyDeleteI think that in most private schools education toward abstinence is really applied, but there are exceptions and teens start to have sexual relations.
The pregnancy theme is something that not has to be educated only at home, but at school too, so teens have realyy present what the consecuences are going to be. For most éople it is important to get to know this information for not making errors that would affects his or her life.
I think that giving contraceptives to teens is a way of encouraging them to have sexual relationships because gives the idea "ok you can do it, but please at least use protection". Most of the teens that are sexually active don´t use any protection and tehey become parents in an early time.Authorities give some courses on pregnancy and birth control, but only in the city; most people in Guatemala don´t get the basic sexual education they need, so they are sexually active without any prevention, and they have a lot of kids.But in my opinion what authorities need to promote is the education for teenagers about abstinence, wich is the only one that is a hundred percent effective.
DeleteI think that in most private schools, education toward abstinence is really applied and explained, but even thou teens start to have sexual relations because of peer pressure, or other factors.
The pregnancy theme is something that not has to be educated only at home, but at school too,because some teens don´t believe in what their parents say or don´t have that kind of talk with their parents; Also it is a way that teens have realy present what the consecuences are going to be and how to avoid it . For most péople it is important to get to know this information for not making errors that would affects his or her life.
I think that adolescents are being encouraged to have sexual activity if in schools they give adolescents contraceptives. If we see it from other point, schools are also protecting them. i think that school should really make concience about how good abstinence is in adolescents and when the school has already teach and try to convince adolescents to dont be in sexual activity, and even though the teens ( a high perentage) is involved in sexual activity, then school should give contraceptives to prevent STD´s and girls being pregnant. In other words what I think is that school should give contraceptives just as a last method when they see that students didn´t listen to school advises.
ReplyDeleteI think sexual education is most importat at home, but on school is a better way of informating kids of this type of topics. Some families don´t talk about this, thinking is a better way of aboiding their children be sexual active. But in some cases is the opposite of that, or kids prefere to talk this type of topics with their teach or some other person than their parents.
ReplyDeleteMy point of view is that our parents gave us values and a good way of acting, even the teachers or family give us all the knowledge of sexuality. Is our desicion to be or not be sexual active.
Giving contraceptives to kids is not a way of taling be sexual active, in other ways is a good way of telling "be careful" because some people is not conscious about the consecuences they could have, like STD´s or pregnancy.
In my opinion, well i always support abstinence, but i´m not the only one who thinks this way, thats why school or parents lessons about sexuality is a good way of giving the persons who prefere contraceptives a good way of taking control of this.
Babies are God´s gift and our virginity is a gift you gave to the person you love in the moment you marriage. But people think in deferent ways and thats why schools or paretns may tell teenagers be careful or take control of a this type of situation.
The drawing represents the "bipolarity" of a relationship, how it has lots of ups and downs, but at the end it always work out.
ReplyDeleteThe movie " the pregnancy pact" represents a real fact that our society is living, every one is free to make their own choices and descitions, but in these days we are all influenced in some way by friends, family, media, etc... And not only in having sex or not, but in the way we dress, the way we think and feel also is beeing affected by all these peers. The movie represents perfectly how our friends can influence in such a personal descition as having a child or not.
I think that giving protection to adolescents isnt going to encourage us to have sex, if we want to do it, it wont make a diference if we have condons or not, we would still do it... I think is an issue that corresponds to family and school, but still there is no way to stop someone from doing someone they wanto to.
ReplyDeleteI don´t think that teens would be encouraged to become sexualy active just for recieving contraceptives in high school. Because people who has good and strong values will allways stick to them no matter what and they wouldn´t care if they have the capability or not to do something they think is wrong. But in other hand people who has no values will still be envolved in sexual activity no matter what, so giving them contraceptives at least would prevent them from pregnancy. What authorities are trying to do by teaching teens about birth control and contraceptives is good. Because everyone is in his or her right to know about this themes. But still the good education starts from the begining of a child´s life in his home. I don´t think education in abstinence is compromised by sexual education beacuse some teens will still get married and will need to know about this. And some mistakes are mostly comitted for ignorance. I also opinate that teen pregnancy is an issue that should be addressed by educators and also in home. Because is something very important to know and is sad when kids or even teens realise they don´t know anything about it. And in conclusion people has to teach better values at home to their chilodren and schools shall have sexual education programs.
ReplyDeleteI personally believe that if schools are giving contraceptives to teens will not encourage them to have sexual intercourse. The truth is that teens will be having sex any way. So, contraceptives will be being used as protection from STD´S and teen girls becoming pregnant.
ReplyDeleteAlso, our scholl is like our second home. We spend most of our time there, so I do believe it is important for us to recieve sexual education from our teachers. Besides, some teens don´t get the right information about sex in their homes and by getting it from school they would be in less danger of becoming irresponsibly sexually active.
The teen pregnancy problem should be treated not only in school, but also un home. A day in a teen's life is: half school, half home; this means that he/she interacts with his/her teachers as much as with his/her parents. Both, the teacher and the parents, are the role models and the people that we should (most of the times) follow his/her steps and take their advices. I personally think that teen pregnancy is something stupid and if this hapens is beacuase there is either a problem in the house or a problem in the school, so this should be treated from both ways.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the fact that in high school contraceptives were distributed among the students wouldn't be a way of encouraging them to be sexually active. It's not a secret that nowadays there are teenagers, specially in high school, that are sexually active so why don't give them a help to prevent problems that has to do with this activities. I think that by distributing contraceptives the authorities can play a important role in this teenagers lifes by preventing them to get pregnant or getting STD's. The sexual education begins in home but also must be complemented at school. The problem is that at this time teenagres feel embarrassed or don't have the confidence for talking with their parents neither profesors about this issues, and then because they remain curious they start to look up for answers in the wrong places. This can lead them to do incorrect things or engage in wrong and risky activities. The school must teach adolescents the basic about sexual rellationships because sex is there and it is real so they do not have try to hide it or avoid the theme because these only increases ignorance between adolescents and this can cause big problems to the ones who tries without knowing anything about them. The best contraceptive method, more than condoms and any other method, is abstinence and should be promoted in home and specially at school because is there were adolescents experience most of their relationships. The problem is that there are homes in which parents doesn't care about those topics and because in school they have been never taught about them, teenagers grow believing that it is not a big deal and not having the special care that these activities requiere. At the end the decision is personal but why don't helping adolescents to choose the best option?
ReplyDeleteGiving out contraceptives might be a way of inciting teens to have sex because they might think it is something safe to do just because they are using a condom and actually it isn’t fully safe. Authorities are not even interested in giving some sexual education in society, only in schools this things are showed but sexual education should be teach also at our own home. Abstinence is, at least in private high schools, showed to prevent teen pregnancy but it should be implemented with more interest and with more force. Teen pregnancy is something that must be treated by parents and educators because learning more than the needed won’t damage anyone. All this information I just wrote you can see it in a normal day in society.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Tenenbaum IV "B"
I think that teen pregnancy should be learned in school and home. It's true when you say that from home should be your education based on, also having school education is important. For teens to be "Sexual" active is an irresponsible way to live their sexuality. If teens are having sexual relationships is because they all ready know everything that is related to that. There are some cases in which teens don't have the right education about sexuality, preganancy and all the diseases and risks they developed. To learn about this it's important that schools help to prevent teens getting involve with sex. Parents and school are our good examples and models from which we get influenced by. Teen pregnancy should be treated since our home with our parents or adults that are responsible for us and in school. Both need to be related to each other, so you can get knowledge and being responsible for yourself and around the society. NO sex at our young age and prevent teen pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteMaría Isabel Echeverria
DeleteIV B
Adolescents should respect their own body. They are taught in school and at home about abstinence. If the school gave contraceptives for the student some of them will be encourage having sex or some student won’t care and wait for marriage. Students have their own way of thinking about sexual activity, they choose between sex and whiting for marriage, but if you want to prevent teen pregnancies and STD´S by the teens that choose having sex the school should give contraceptives.
ReplyDeleteIf the school distrubutes contraceptives to the adolescents they are just showing us how to take care of our bodys and avoiding diseases and pregnancies, so at least if someone decided to become sexually active they would have the chance to take care of their body,
ReplyDeleteand its better this way because sometimes the parents don t talk about sex, and we all should know the consequences of being sexually active. For me it is a good thing if school provide the adolescents information about sex, this does not mean we all should have sex, it just means that they are showing us how to protect ourselves,but
the best way to avoid bad consequences is abstinenc, but not all the people decided to take this road called abstinence. After all this I think the sexual education begins in home.
well i think that were all the sexual studies and all of the thing that you have to know about sex is learn in our home. mosth of the times the the teenager feel bad about their body and how they look because they think they will not be accepted in like the society of the school but thats not true the schools have to take care about meking all the students learn about the sex and helping them to know that at this age if you get pregnatn you literary will ruin your studies and more because you will have to take care about the baby the babys stuff and more. i think that because of all this things happening the sexual education has to start at home with responsible parents.
ReplyDeleteI think that if schools distribute contraceptives to the students they will think that being sexually active is normal at this age. Sexual abstinence should not only be teached on school but also in our homes too because it includes values when you are talking about sexual abstinence. In my opinion every teen should keep abstinence until marriage or until the are mature to face the consequences.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Smith
First of all, I think that if schools gives contraceptives to the students, that will suggests to the students that being sexually active a that age is normal, and of course we know that is not correct at our age. Also, I think that we should remain in abstinence until marriage. Also, sexual education should be given at home, because home is where we form values, and also sexual education should be strengthened in school. Remember, you have the decisions of what you want to do with the things, so think it twice.
ReplyDeleteLuis Gustavo Martínez IV B
I don´t think distributing contraceptives at schools is not okay. It, in some way, says that it is okay to be sexually active while they use protection. I think that abstinence should be mostly discussed at home. Though, it is good that the schools give sexual education to their students. In my opinion it is absolutely wrong to be sexually active a our age in no way appropiate. I thim¿nk that sex was made specically to have children after marriage. Any use of it before is, in my opinion, against its nature. Society today think it is acceptable, but I think that the prize of waiting with pacience is much better than the momentary pleasure of being sexually active.
ReplyDeleteJose Pablo Higueros
IV C
I think that if high schools give contraceptives, students will think that it’s normal so they will become sexual active, and i think at this age is better to wait. I think that schools should provide conferences and lectures about become sexual active and the disadvantages, and tell students how to prevent a pregnancy. It’s important to tell girls especially to say no and learn to respect theirselves, because they are the ones who decides and let the boy to do it.
ReplyDeleteAuthorities always have publicity and commercials to tell how to protect and that boys should not be shy at buying it, but the problem is that authorities just have publicity and they don’t provide conferences and contraceptives and there are people who don’t even know that you can become pregnant. Authorities should care more about it and try to not only convince teenagers to protect them and abstinence but also the parents to talk to their kids.
Is very important in high schools to talk students about abstinence because teenagers are always at school and there’s where they meet the most of people they know and sexual education has become a very important topic to talk about because teen pregnancies are becoming very common and it’s a big problem to deal with.
I think that teen pregnancy should be addressed by both of them, educators and at home, because you always need a professional advice and of course your parents advice. And sometimes teenagers think it’s too awkward to talk about it with their parents so they don’t listen them but if they have 2 different persons who tell them, they will listen more and learn more about it.
Alejandra Ocampo IV "C"
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ReplyDeleteI think that if at some point high schools start to give contraceptives to teens, its only a way of helping them out of preventing unplanned things, like a pregnancy or having some type of STD`s, because nowadays alot of teens are becoming sexually active. I also think that this type of information should be provided in home but also at school so that teens get another source of information that can be more clear than their parents`. Another thing that schools should do is to give conference to the teens so they are exposed to the consequences that they can get if they decide to have sexual intercourse. In my opinion at this times teens are getting into this type of issues because of peer pressure or at some point their partner`s pressure so it would be very difficult that this problem gets controlled. Based of what the teens` parents think about their child to become sexually active its not okay because they have given them values and have tought them how to respect themselves etc etc BUT lets be REAL teenager pregnancies are happening so the only thing that they can do is hepling them out so they can prevent it.
ReplyDeleteAna Belen Laylle IV "A"
I think that adolescents wouldn’t be encouraged to be sexually active by giving them contraceptives because the ones that want to be sexually active they are going to it without the need of contraceptives gaved by school or by someone else and the ones that want to be abstinent they’re going to stay abstinent. I think that the authorities are not taking enough care of teen pregnancies because the not all the teachers talk about sex with freedom with their students. We are a closed minded country so we didn’t talk about sex as a normal theme. Also in some places in this country sex is still treated as a taboo theme and that’s a mistake because all people should know the consequences of being sexually active. I think that all should be involved (families, school, Govern) in preventing teen pregnancies because we can only make a big change together and with almost a close point of view of the situation. I think that the best way to prevent teen pregnancies is by showing how to use contraceptives, with their benefits and disadvantages, showing all the STD’s and how their life could be if they get pregnant or sexually active at a very young age.
ReplyDeleteLuis Fernando Salazar IV "A"
I think that teenagers are sexually active because of their own choice I don’t think if they give contraceptives or don’t they are not going to be sexually active the contraceptives makes teenagers to protect their selves of std’s or getting pregnant. In the first movie we saw it was a pregnancy pact but if the girls would know more about contraceptives I think the first girl that start everything would not being pregnant and any of this would happened. I think the authorities are taking care about pregnancy issues by educating adolescents on contraceptives but also they are making things easier for the teenagers that get pregnant like making a daycare in high school I think that’s I little bit of help but everything its easier if they get pregnant so they cant see anything wrong. I think authorities need to do something that they can prove it helps, not showing programs like 16 and pregnant that’s not the reality I thing they have to give speeches about real stories and real facts that teenagers can understand and think twice. In united states they are more cases about teenagers being pregnant because of the peer pressure and trying to fit I think they are doing right talking about contraceptives, in the school of my cousins on Miami, Florida they have sexual education and the most important theme is abstinence. In all countries they have a birth control but in this couple of years it raised, so that’s when the authorities starts to make something. Yes education on abstinence is being compromised by sexual education in high school. I think that everything starts in home and how mothers teach their sons, some parents think that if they watch them all they long and if they don’t let them go out any day her o his son is going to be perfect and that’s the first problem they make, but anyways I think in every school they need to have a sexual education including contraceptives and talking about abstinence and the risk of being sexually active. I think we saw the perfect example of how teenagers destroy their life’s because of the peers and a pact , the girls end up without boyfriend just taking care about a baby that at first was an error.
ReplyDeleteBeing sexually active is a choice you make. Is necessary to have schools involved and that at school they teach you about birth control and teen pregnancies because they show you different options and consequences and then if you take a bad decision is because you wanted to not because they influence you. Is different when you have "the speech" of sex at home than the one you have at school because sometimes you don't listen to your parents but you do listen to someone else. You know more about what consequences you can have and you think twice about it if at school they show you what STD's are,how you can get them,the risks of having a baby at a teen age,and how is that teens with babies have to change their routines and how their lives change. Teen pregnancies are very common now a days but you can not assure is because they hang out condoms at schools or just because they influence you or encourage you to do it because of the lectures they give you. From my point of view and for what I have seen on tv and close experiences some teen pregnancies are because teens have had problems with their parents and for some stupid reason they think having their own family will take away all those problems they have or will make them feel different with the world and with themselves. In my opinion for a certain percent of population having this type of information so close can be that encouraging situation to do it and for other percent of it, it will support the idea of "abstinence till marriage".
ReplyDeleteMichelle Cancinos IV A
On life we constantly have to take decisions that might affect on a positive or negative way ourselves. One of the most important decisions we must take is related to sexuality. We are the only ones who decide if why wait, if we are sexually active, if we use protection, and if we would practice abstinence. School provides a support system in which they teach all the risk of our actions and decisions, and they show us ways of protect our self and how to deal with our decisions. When high school distributes contraceptives, they are just doing their job, showing us ways of prevent teen pregnancy and std´s, but they are never inciting the student to be sexually active, they are only preparing us for when we decide to take the choice.
ReplyDeleteFrancisco Ramon Gonzalez Porras IV C
Well, I think that if contraceptives are distributed in High School adolescents will be encouraged to have sex because if they know what a contraceptive is maybe they will think that with contraceptives there is no likelihood for the girl to get pregnant or to get and STD. But contraceptives are not 100% effective. Also adolescents may fell embarrassed when they ask for some contraceptives, so they decide not to ask for or use them. I think Some High School's authorities are not taking care of teen pregnancy because they don't give teens the sexual education that they need to know. Moreover in some schools there are baby-sitters, whom take care of the babies while teen parents, especially girls, are taking classes. Maybe they think "If in my school there is a baby-sitter, I could leave my baby with the baby-sitter without worrying about him/her" because I think that having a baby is the dream of every girl. That way of thinking would cause authorities to not have birth control.
ReplyDeleteEducation on abstinence is compromised by sexual education in High school because with sexual education you learn about STDs and pregnancy, and abstinence is a good way to prevent them. A teenager can choose if he/she wants to abstain from sex and if he/she doesn't want to abstain from sex he/she actually can use contraceptives. But some teens, that already had sexual intercourse, say that it feels different using contraceptives, is not the same; and they decide not to use them.
Teen pregnancy should be addressed at home because our parents already know what being father or mother means and the y can make us think about it twice. It should be addressed at school because in school we spend most of the time there and little by little teachers become part of our lives, so that means that probably we will listen to the advices they give us, and we will make use of them. I think teens don’t have the maturity to take care of a baby. They need to learn about sexual intercourse, the STDs you can get and the responsibility that the boy and the girl need to have if the girl get pregnant.
When teens have sexual intercourse and the girl get pregnant they think that the baby is a mistake, they are wrong; the only mistake is that they are having sexual intercourse without using contraceptives and thinking about what implies if the girl gets pregnant. They don’t have the needed maturity to take care of a baby.
Israel Pimentel
IV "C"
Sweetie, are these your own words? You writing in this post shows structure and lexicon that you have not used before. Did you write this on your own? If this paragraph was not your own doing in full, I cannot grant you a grade for it.
DeleteI dont think teens are encouraged to have sex if contraceptives are distributed in highscools. The contraceptives will help to stop or reduce pregnancy in highschools. teens that want to be sexually active they will be with or without contraceptives, so if we give the teens contraceptives maybe there will not be so much pregnancy because they will use the condoms. I think there is no way to stop teens having sex at such a young age because at last its their own choice to be sexually active. I thiink that with sexual education in shcool and houses will reduce the number of teens that are sexually active, so I think there should be sexual eduation in every house and school. Teens wil have sex dependng on their morals and values, and if they can support peer pressure because a lot of teens do it just because other people are doing it. So giving condmos is a way to protect th because we can not stop them to have sex but with contraceptives we wiil protect them from diseases and form being pregnant at such a young age, because it will be a huge mistake having a baby at that age. the best way to prevent diseases and to be pregnant is abstinence, but not all the teens think the same way, so with education and contraceptives maybe we will help teens make a good decision about being or not being sexually active.
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IV B
When high schools distribute contraceptives for adolescents, they are not encouraging them to become sexually active. It doesn't matter if they do it or not, teenagers will keep having an active sexual life. So I think high schools are not doing anything wrong by giving their students a safety way to protect themselves from STD's or teen pregnancies. But it's not only about giving them condoms, schools should also support abstinence.
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Alejandra de Leon IV "B"
Give contractives to adolescent is not a bad idea becouse helps to avoid a pregnacy but if yopu give them they are going to think that is okey to doet and they give support so lets doet, and thats not the point. Authorities are not helping to much with the theme of pregnancy issues, there is not a specific authority in each school that gives sexual education for the adolescents. High school is the place were is more easy to educate adolescents, they should creat a class at least one in the week to tech how pregnacy is about. Pregnancy should be teached by profesionals that know what is ih, how is it, and that they know they are going to impact the school members, becouse dosent matter how many you talk whats matter is what the adolescents are going to remember about what you say. Is better to they be afrais and have scare that they just fell confortable with sexual activu¡ity. This theme should be adressed at all the posible places in school and in house, becouse alot of adolescents let get easy influece by what they see in school, and what friends do, so is important to in both places have somebod that helps all the kids.
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I believe that his body has to respect all before that everything. And with the contraceptives would generate that the young persons have sexual activity because they believe that with the contraceptives already there is no problem. is why the women turn out to be pregnant. The conversations are good but many persons do not notice to what they say to them and realize the mistake after committing it and it is why they know they make I mistake. The pregnancy has to be spoken in the college as in the house. Many persons believe that it is the better thing and do it. When this badly and later not become persons in charge of their acts and it is when comes all the consequences. there are many persons who do not know that it is what the people want to say. What it has to do the young persons is to think before acting and to see that consequences bring the acts that they want to do. Some persons take the incorrect decision for not knowing of the topic. think that is too awkward to talk about it with their parents so they don’t listen them . if they have 2 different persons who tell them, they will listen more and learn more about it.
ReplyDeleteI think that if schools distribute contraceptives to the students they will think that being sexually active is normal at this age but there are r. As teens we can think of what is good for us, we don't always choose the right things but that's the way we learn. The only thing we need is the best orientation and support because no matter what we see or what we learn we will always do what we want.
ReplyDeleteSometimes teenagers think it’s too awkward to talk about it with their parents so they don’t listen them but if they have 2 different persons who tell them, they will listen more and learn more about it. Some persons take the incorrect decision for not knowing of the topic. And it is for that often they incommoded to speak on the topic and is when the problems happen.
The parents don t talk about sex, and we all should know the consequences of being sexually active. If teens are having sexual relationships is because they already know everything that is related to that. There are some cases in which teens don't have the right education about sexuality, pregnancy and all the diseases and risks they developed.
Sweetie, you used the same words as Ana Elisa Gaitan:
DeleteThe only thing we need is the best orientation and support because no matter what we see or what we learn we will always do what we want.
Seems like you both used the same link: www.wiki.answers.com on religion and spirituality. Since this assignment required you to write your OWN personal opinion, I cannot grant you a grade for it.
I think teen pregnancies are an issue that should be confronted by schools,and make everything to avoid them. Providing contraceptives would be an excellent way of reducing teen pregnancies, and it also lowers the risk of transmitting HIV and other diseases. It is not an issue of values, but of health. Parents should also encourage their sons talking about responsible raltions, because it would be a good way of learning to avoid errors.
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In my opinion giving contraceptives to teenagers in schools is a very good idea, it does not encourage them to have sex, it really would cause those who are sexually active, take care and avoid having sexually transmitted diseases or unwanted pregnancies, because who wants to have sex is going to have, no matter who does not have access to contraceptive methods, and do not want to have sex, not going to have, whether or not access to contraceptive methods. The school must make a good sex education that teaches that the best method of contraception is abstinence, which Teach the risks that unprotected sex and the consequences of this. The problem of teenage pregnancy is not something we should speak only in the home, also should be spoken in school, you have the right to receive all the information possible, because ignorance is what makes these pregnancies occur. Sebastián Rios Peláez 4to"B"
ReplyDeleteIf contraceptives are distributed in high schools adolecents will still do what they want to do. they are just goin to know more about ways of being careful and doing things right. Everyone needs to know about birth control and have easy access to it. Authorities are taking care of teen pregnancy issues by educating adolescents on contraceptives and birth control because if people know more about birth control they will know how to take care of themselves and be careful. Education on abstinence is being compromised by sexual education in high school because teens need to know about both abstinence and sexual education. Teen pregnancy is an issue that should be addressed by educators and at home. it is everyones responsability to teach young kids about these type of issues. Everyone in the world should be aware or what real life is as a grown person.
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I think if schools start to provide contraceptives to students, the message they are giving to students is "okay you can have sex using this" but contraceptives aren't always effective. Schools shouldn't provide contraceptives to students because they are encouraging them to have sex. If one couple who used contraceptives but still the girl got pregnant, parents of the school could blame it for providing and encauraging kids to try them. Contraceptives have to be a decision from the couple. Parents are allowed to give contraceptives to their kids. Sexuality has to be teachedat school, but parnts have to educate their children at home to. They play a cery important role in order to educate well teens on what problems happen because of a having an active sexual life and the benefits of abstinence at a young age.
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ReplyDeleteI think teenagers should not be having sex at all. Not every teenager is going to have sex; however, this is a growing problem that is resulting in teenage mothers and deadly, even incurable diseases. Schools need to stop trying to hide this issue and make the decision to at least provide some means of protection. Stop thinking about if it is morally right or whether it sends wrong messages, because it is already a proven fact that condoms drastically decrease pregnancies and STDs if they are properly used. If a school had the option to either provide them and save lives, or not provide them and possibly cause teenage pregnancy or spread of deadly disease why would they not want to make the obviously healthier decision? Please allow our nation’s adolescents abstinence alternatives.
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Sweetie, your opinion is extremely similar to an essay posted on www.teenink.com about giving condoms to teenagers in high schools. Since these are not your OWN word nor your personal opinion, I cannot grant you a grade for it.
DeleteIs teen pregnancy an issue that should be addressed by educators, or should it be addressed only at home?
ReplyDeleteI think Teen pregnancy is one of the most difficult experiences a young person might ever face. And to prevent it is something difficult because you can’t control the decision teens made about their body. But you can influence in the way they think.
Parents and school play a big roll in the influence of the teenagers. Parents can help prevent teen pregnancy by being involved in their teens' lives and maintaining a close and open relationship with them. And if you think, if a parent came with us and start talk about birth control, it would be the most uncomfortable moment in our lives, no matter how the relationship is. So that’s when educators came in action, they can provide teens with general information on birth control methods like abstinence and all that stuff.
Alicia Gálvez
IV A
code: 12
The abstinence education in public schools or even private school is very important. But, most of the time the abstinence education is started in the values your family inculcate in you. You are the one who decides follow them or create your own ones. School is afraid of talking about this themes, because each one have a different opinion. That's why school doesn't like the idea of giving contraceptives, or even taking as a personal problem the teen pregnancy. School and parents are terrify of the teen pregnancy that are happening now a days. I don't think that giving contraceptives to the adolescents would be the solution. Everyone knows that contraceptives are not hundred percent secure, and maybe them would let the teens to became sexually active earlier. Remember that in this age everyone seem pregnancy fancy or a long term goal, but for the parents it would be an accident and their precious, innocent little kid doesn't have to deal with it, and they take care of them.
ReplyDeleteEverything has it appropriate age, and it would come when it have to. Don't try to grow up so fast and evitate your parents a don't want problem. Be responsible in the society and in school and don't frustrate your dreams.
I actually think teenagers are not being encouraged to become sexually active if contraceptives are distributed in high schools. In fact, I think that doing this decreases the riks of teens becoming pregnant or getting any type of STD.
ReplyDeleteI personally believe that people should abstain from sexual activity until they get married, but that's because of the morales and values my parents and God have taught me throughout the years. So I do believe that education about abstinence starts at home, and then information about it at high school would be good too, but some students have recieved a different education or have different beliefs so by the time they get to high school, they are already thinking about becoming sexually active. The reality is that teenagers are starting to become involved in sexual activity at a very early age now. So they need to get informed about protection, using condoms and other contraceptives and providing them that protection in high schools is a good idea. The unavailability of contraceptives and protection is a big reason why teens become pregnant or obtain an STD.
Sex in teenagers should not be seen as something normal or good, because no, teens shouldn't have sex at all! But if that's the case, is better to provide information and contraceptives to students and prevent pregnancies and STD's than having to deal with the consequences later on. Not only because it might affect the person that did it, but in cases of pregnancies, for example, it affects the baby as well. So even though abstinence is the way to go, if teens decide to become sexually active, they should know how to use contraceptives and be able to obtain them.
I think adolescents might get more sexually active if high school's distributed contraceptives, because they may think that having the contraceptives they can have sex any time they wanted to, because they already knew that there's a higher percentage that maybe the girl won't get pregnant. I think most of the authorities gave up teaching about teen pregnancy, because either way they tell them the consequences they might have, they will continue doing it because is something they already get use to do or the same peer pressure that is going on. I think authorities may look for better ways to open teen eyes, and make them realize that what they're doing is not a good way for them in their future. Sometimes, abstinence is not well shown, because as everyone sees, teens continue doing it and only when the consequences arrived they gave up and start saying sorry for their actions. Teen pregnancy is an issue that has to be addressed more in home than by educators, because teens don't care about what a stranger tell them, but when the mother or the father sit with them and tell them what's really wrong, teenagers may understand better than on school or by an educator. I think that the only way teens will understand that what they're doing is wrong, is when they get the consequences of their action.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion giving contraceptives in private or public schools is not a good idea or even think about that. It´s a way of encouraging them to have sex with whomever they want to and is like telling them "it is okay, now that you got contraceptives go have some fun" that´s not a good way of teaching teen pregnancy, and because of that maybe a student could get STD´s because lets remember that a contraceptive 100% effective doesn´t exist. I think that teen pregnancy should be teached in both school and at home, and telling them the bad things of been an teenage father or mother and the big consequences it has, Encouraging a teenager to remain abstinent until marriage is being responsible and a mentor to him or her. In some cases after all some students will remain having sex and not obey teachers or parents and the only way they will take reponsabilities for their acts is when they become teenage parents.
ReplyDeleteThere can be many opinions about giving teenagers contraceptives or not. We want it or not, teenagers are having sex, so why not give them the right tool to avoid some of the consequences? In my opinion, getting pregnant is better than any STD. That doesn't mean that getting pregnant at a young age is the best for your health.
ReplyDeleteIf people had a good sexual education, there would be less pregnancies and less STD's. Sexual education comes from home, and the school. Abstinence is a very important part of the kind of education teens must have. Having or not having sex is a decision that any person has to make. It depends of your values and your beliefs. There are many teenagers than want to have sex until marriage, but there's another lot of teens that do not want that.
Now a days, many teenagers are getting pregnant, it is not the parent's fault, neither the teacher's fault, it is the boy and the girl who had sex. This do not mean that they are bad people or anything, they just made a bad decision.
Teenagers are becoming more promiscuous every day, I don't know if there is any way to stop this, but there is a way of avoiding all this pregnancies.. and that is CONTRACEPTIVES :)
The distribution of birth control in high schools contributes to promoting promiscuity because people of that age do not understand nor comprehend neither the consequences nor the responsibilities that come with being sexually active. When a teenager receives some type of prophylactic he or she feels that it is a license to be careless with sexual activity. The result of this type of behavior is very serious. For example, a girl can get pregnant or even worse receive a venereal disease that can cause illness or even death. Some birth control can prevent the spread of disease but does not guarantee that it is 100% effective. Also, no contraceptive assures that your sexual partner is only with you. The person who has a partner is in fact sleeping with every person the other one has had sexual intercourse with and so on and so on.
ReplyDeleteSweetie, are these your own words? Your comment has words and the structure that you have not presented before. If this comment was not written by you, I cannot grant you a grade for it.
DeleteI think the pregnancy of adolescents have a lot to do with how educated at home, his family. But also this problem must be addressed by educators as most of the time spends in school and live more with people who may not have been educated for the same purpose. Should educate the parents from a young age to have sex at a young age is not correct as this can cause diseases that still do not know how to treat or simply may become pregnant.
ReplyDeleteThis problem is very common in the U.S. because the group is more precise tolerance and the parents are not educating their children best. It is best to give a good knowledge to adolescents so that this problem does not continue so.
In conclusion I believe that these problems have much to do with the education of the house and all of society.
In my personal opinion I believe that teenagers are not prepared of being sexually active. Teens need to be educated on the realities of life as a teen mom and the consequences that come with the role. Parents and teachers can help teens realize that being a mom is a full-time job and involves sacrificing individual hobbies and pursuits. Parents need to be sure that teens understand that having a baby is a life-changing event, not a job that can be assigned to family. Teens are often more embarrassed to talk to their parents about birth control than they are afraid of having unprotected sex. School health programs can provide teens with general information on birth control methods but parents need to educate teens on the importance of waiting to have sex until they are ready and being responsible enough to use protection, also they can help to prevent teen pregnancy by being involved in their teens' lives and maintaining a close and open relationship.
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DeleteI think that being parents at this age is a serious thing and a big problem because you will interrupt your studies and your own life. A teenager is not mature enough to be a father or a mother. Teenagers are sexually active at this age and they are not thinking about the consequences it brings. I believe that having birth control methods in school is a god idea because it would help the teenager to be protective, but at the same time it would aloud teenagers to become sexually active. The parents of the teenagers have to play a big roll in our lives talking about us all of this things, but wee have to be responsible every time we want to become sexually active. Teenagers are not prepared to become parents at this age because of all the things that a baby needs and a lot of time too. The most important thing I can think about this is that is important to have a good relationship with your parents and being always responsible.
ReplyDeleteWell I think that pregnancy in teens its more common now, but I always aks that, Why this Years? its because the media? or its because the peer presure of the society? I know that the most influence are your friends, but thats no the case, what it really it the case, is what you want in your life, its true that peer is very hard and someone cannnot handle very well, but for me its more an internal fight, because people introduce you the theme in your life but then, you pass thinking about it all the afternoon, telling that it can be great but also the consequences that can have. Alos I think taht the education most be in home and also in the school with people that is prepare enogh to talk about it. Because sometimes even our parents don't know about the theme, and you are helping the society.
ReplyDeleteI think this is very serious and some people take it as a joke, people have to be more responsible for their acts and know that each act has its consequence. Adults should teach teens about the consequences that being sexually active has.
ReplyDeleteGiving adolecents contraceptives is giving them the option to have sexual relationships using protection. And this is making more teens to be sexual active because they are having the option by the school to have sexual relationships but using protection. Its not good this becuase you are like giving the idea to them that they dont care if you do it but they want to you to use protection in case of telling you to be abstince or virgin. Now in schools and parents are educating their children and making them to have sex until marriage, its like a brain wash because its important that they know the consequences like having a Sexual Transmited Disease. Its has to be teached not only in home, also in school becuase you get more deep in the topic and you learn a lot of more information that is not given on school.
ReplyDeleteI think that if they teach sexual education in high schools they mean that the teens should take care of themselves and they should keep abstinence as his first option if they are in relationships ,but not everyone decides to be in abstinence to sex. So it is a good way to teach students how to take care of them,and I think its good if authorities do care about teens being sexually active because obvious reasons. I also think that the sexual education begins at home with the parents.It is their responsibility to teach their kids how to take care of them and also they teach the values so then the teens might make their decision by their values teached in home,but it is also important that in the school the teens get sexual education,but after all the ones that have the power to say no are the teens.
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